captaen

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

Noun

captaen m (genitive singular captaein, nominative plural captaein)

  1. captain (person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Ba ghnáthach le captaen óg luinge teacht ar cuaird go tig an cheannaidhe go minic agus do bhíodh sé ana-cheanamhail ar Mháire Bhán.
      A young ship’s captain had the custom of often visiting the merchant’s house and he was very fond of Máire Bhán.
  2. captain (military rank)
  3. captain (member of a sports team designated to make decisions)

Declension

Declension of captaen

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative captaen captaein
Vocative a chaptaein a chaptaena
Genitive captaein captaen
Dative captaen captaein

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an captaen na captaein
Genitive an chaptaein na gcaptaen
Dative leis an gcaptaen

don chaptaen

leis na captaein

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
captaen chaptaen gcaptaen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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